LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Vessel
Dover, Kent. At 11.30 on the morning of the 16th September, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was in difficulties a mile and a half north-east of Dover.
At 11.45 the life-boat...
H.M.S. Cygnet
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 12.20 in the morning of the 7th of February. 1948, the coast- guard telephoned that H.M.S. Cygnet, bound from the Arctic to Sheerness, was approaching and wished to land a sick man...
The Sunbeam
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 9 o'clock in the evening of the 1st of August, 1948, the coastguard reported a motor vessel broken down off Saltdean, and the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched at 9.5 in calm...
The Sailing Boat Brigand
Weymouth, Dorsetshire.—At six o'clock in the evening of the 15th of September, 1949, a boat owner reported that his sailing boat Brigand was missing with a man and a woman on board. The life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched at...
Rosaline
Buckie, Banffshire. At 7.25 on the evening of the 19th of March, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel aground on the West Muck rocks, three quarters of a mile from Buckie harbour, was burning flares....
Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire. At 11.35 on the morning of the 28th of December, 1959, it was decided that the life-boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted should launch to escort several local fishing cobles, which were returning to harbour in rapidly worsening...
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 5.15 in the evening, on the 13th of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that three menin a rubber dinghy were drifting sea- wards off Ty-Croes. At 5.25 the life- boat A.E.D. was launched in a calm sea with a light...
Erinmhor
Troon, Ayrshire - At 5.35 p.m. on 30th May, 1970, the life-boat's second coxswain sighted red flares two miles north west of Troon harbour. The life-boat Connel Elizabeth Cargill made for the casualty at 5.45 in a light north westerly...
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Appledore, Devon - At 5.30 p.m. on 24th August, 1966, a visitor informed the mechanic that a person had disappeared while swimming across the river Torridge.
At 5.40 the life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker set out. It was thirty...
Kiando
Hastings, Sussex - At 6.6 p.m. on 18th September, 1966, a vessel was noticed burning red flares three to four miles south west of the life-boat station. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 6.34 and proceeded to a position south of the...